100 Best Inspirational Quotes for Work

Without work, we cannot move forward, we cannot achieve our dreams, and we cannot accomplish our goals. We have to take the necessary steps to start our journey, actions to keep us on the right track, and hard work to reach our destination. But working hard is easier said than done. We need inspirations to remind us every day, and a lot of motivations to push ourselves to do our job and break any barrier that will hinder us in reaching our goals or dreams.

Laziness, procrastination, hopelessness, lack of focus, and loss of interest are only some of the many things that could destroy our passion for work. But for people who are committed to their work, they will find ways to accomplish anything.

One of the most effective ways to inspire and motivate yourself to work hard and be more productive is to read inspirational and motivational quotes. Whether you are feeling lazy on Mondays or already feeling burned out on Fridays, here are 100 best inspirational quotes for work to help you get more things done.

1. “Paths are made by walking.” – Franz Kafka

2. “Those at the top of the mountain didn’t fall there.” – Unknown

3. “It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” – Howard Ruff

4. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

5. “Do or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back

6. “The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!” – Marvin Phillips

7. “Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” –George Halas

8. “If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe.” – Abraham Lincoln

9. “A goal should scare you a little and excite you a lot.” – Joe Vitale

10. “If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan, but never the goal.” – Author Unknown

25. “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – Francis of Assisi

26. “You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.” – Billy Wilder

27. “If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” – Bruce Lee

29. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

30. “Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain’t how hard you can hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. It’s how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.” – Rocky, Rocky Balboa

31. “Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.” – Rocky, Rocky Balboa

32. “If you want something you never had, you have to do something you’ve never done.” – Thomas Jefferson

33. “Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow.” – Unknown

34. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn

35. “A ship is always safe a shore but that is not what it’s built for.” – Albert Einstein

36. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

37. “If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh

38. “Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something, not even me. Alright? You dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.” – Chris Gardner, The Pursuit of Happyness

39. “Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.” – Stephen R. Covey

40. “Don’t tell people your dreams. Show them.” – Unknown

41. “An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.” – Friedrich Engels

42. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford

55. “Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.” – Napoleon Hill

56. “The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.” – James Yorke

57. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett

58. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

59. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean

60. “If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.” – Napoleon Hill

61. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry S. Truman

62. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

63. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino

64. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

65. “Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.” St. Jerome

66. “The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” – Vince Lombardi

67. “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

68. “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

69. “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”– Thomas Jefferson

70. “Quality is much better than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.” – Steve Jobs

71. “Someday is not a day of the week.” – Janet Daily

72. “Quality is much better than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.” – Steve Jobs

73. “My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.” – Indira Gandhi

74. “A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” – Colin Powell

100. “If you don’t burn out at the end of each day, you’re a bum.” – George Lois

I hope those hundred sayings and quotations above will help you get more inspired and motivated to do your job. Finally, I want to share the following words of mine about work. When you put love and passion in your work, pressure cannot stop you, because pressure becomes you.

Vic is the founder of InspiringTips.com. He regularly writes for the site and also serves as its digital marketing strategist. Vic likes to talk about true love, meaningful life, quantum physics, spiritual growth, and more.